Buying Kingston and Sony USB Flash Drives On eBay Safely – A Guide

Posted by KittyFireFlash on January 24, 2009

If you exercise care and research you can buy genuine Kingston and Sony USB Flash drives on eBay. You need to do your homework first! While listings for on branded false capacity usb Flash drives are going down on eBay, the issue of counterfeits for these two brand names has as yet, not been addressed.

Please review the information presented to help you find the genuine capacity items for both Kingston and Sony usb flash drives on eBay.

Unfortunately stamping on shell casings for size and any serial numbers – do not seem to guarantee that the item is genuine. The only sure way is to test your drive using a software such as H2testw 1.4

On eBay the lime green and purple rimmed tend to be the false capacity models. The advertised size when tested is the actual size these drives were meant to be (2GB, 4GB). You can tell the genuine from the fakes easily for these models. The genuine items are correctly advertised with the sizes reported by Kingston, the fakes are not.

Always consult the manufacturers site for either Sony or Kingston before bidding or buying these brand names on eBay for USB Flash Drives. It will help you to find the genuine flash drives from these brand names.